I’m traveling down the road and I can feel the movement beneath me and hear the sound of cars passing by, but at this moment in time I am not riding in a car but being transported by horse and buggy. A week ago, I met a new family and they are Amish and live as part of an entire Amish community, and that’s when I met Hannah. She was wearing a black cap, with her hair intertwined into an elegant braid. Her dress was blue with a small pocket and it flowed to her ankles. She wore nothing on her feet. I remember thinking how does she wear a dress like that every single day and how does she run in that dress with no shoes on as she walks across the gravel and uneven pavement. When I take the 4-wheeler up there it take me a minute or two. Hannah …show more content…
There was one time where I was pushing Hannah really high on the swing and Laura came right under the swing and it hit her on the hop of her head and she started to cry. Laura does not wear her cap all time. She comes out the biggest smile on face. One time when my cousin and I we’re down there they have a ball and we saw Hannah hitting it with a stick. My cousin and I were always wondering how she could walk on the rocks without any shoes on and she wouldn’t even flinch, Laura walk a low bit slower than the rest of us then once in a while I’ll go back and I would pick her up in and tell you got to the grass. Amman told me in the last time I was up there he said that the girls should have little plays and one of the characters with me because they love them I come up there. I remember once in a while I would try to keep my phone in my pocket so they would not see it. One time Hannah came out with like this little square thing and she pretended it was her phone. I was wondering why she thought that it was her fake phone then I saw that her mom had a phone. I was always thinking that they didn’t have phones but I knew that Amman had an office where he had his computer for his work and had to have a cell phone too. Once in a while when I’m there I would see a car that came and picked up Amman for
What follows is a story of hope, terror, and courage. Hannah meets Rivka
She is a hard worker in which she dedicates her time preparing for college and her future; However, in between school and her personal life she finds time to take upon a relationship with her boyfriend, Joel, of two years. Hannah’s boyfriend is her world; she expresses that without him life is useless. With all her dependence on him in school, engaging with her peers is un-compliable. Instead of hanging out with the other teens in her school she prefers to hang with her friends in the liberal department. Many of the students express that Hannah does not suite their expectations as a friend.
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, written by Joyce Carol Oates, is a short story that takes place in a 1960’s American suburb where tight jeans and slicked back hair is the popular style. The story takes place around a young fifteen year old girl, Connie, who has family issues and enjoys going out with her friends whether it be to the mall, movies, or drive-in restaurant. At the restaurant, Connie is noticed by a man with an odd car who later finds her alone at her house and seductively forces her to come with him and leave her family. This short story demonstrates an allegory. While on the surface it seems to be just a story of a vain girl who is “voluntarily abducted”, it actually represents the temptation of death (Oats 1).
The author uses Hannah’s personality traits to show the theme of the story of never lose hope in the most difficult times. For example, the narrator, the speaker of the story, “Early the next morning, Hannah began looking for the ivorybills and quickly discovered what a daunting task finding the birds was going to be. It was no wonder Mr. Tanner has gotten confused. There were no vacancies in the birdhouses”(Smith 27).
The Search for Validation In the short story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Oates, Connie, the main character, is an adolescence teen who rebels against her family and finds herself in a dangerous situation. Although Connie is young, beautiful, and a little naïve, her home life consist of a combative mother who is hypercritical and intensely jealous and a father who does not actively engage in her life. One summer afternoon, while her family attends a barbeque, Connie is left home alone when a car approaches her drive-way. Inside the car is a man she had seen the night before while out with friends.
Despite the entropic nature of Jeanette’s parents , you have always said that something extraordinary has had to start with passion, or as you would say, the further up you go, the longer it’s going to take you to fall down. With what seems to be nothing as a safety net for Jeanette in an exsanguinous family, I wonder how you were able to start a new life with no family outside of my brother and I. As you had to completely start your life over again, I understand the struggle of being too independent, or secluded. However, without you, my brother and I would both be struggling without a wind pushing us towards success. Even though you sometimes drive both me and my brother crazy, you are the fire that warms us up when we need heat.
She was not much older than myself, only taller and maybe prettier. For why the towns people think of her as a witch I may never know. With a fresh pan of bread in my between my oven mitts I hear John's abrupt entrance, almost knocking
Ms. NS expressed that she was often frustrated with her siblings that her family had been always the one to cook, clean for her and took her to the doctor’s office. Ms. NS reported that her grandfather left her grandmother when Ms. NS was still little. She stated that, because her grandfather had never been involved with her mother’s life, she neither knew who he was nor where he had been for all these years. Ms. NS recalled that she unknowingly ran into her grandfather at her uncle’s wife’s funeral one day, as she randomly greeted visitors. Ms. NS described that her mother came behind her and spoke in a low voice that this old gentleman was her
This quality of Hannah’s is more evident as the story
Hannah experiences a transition from ignorance to knowledge. To begin with, after Hannah moves in with Tante Rose, she becomes consumed by her passion for piano. To her “there [is] nothing else in the world”
Like puppets they nodded. Screams rioted in Janie’s skull. She gripped the bookbag as if she planned to throw grenades. In syllables that dropped as softly as notes on a flute, her mother said, “Hannah is your mother Janie. We are not really your parents.”
Hanna has what the narrator describes as the perfect life. Her parents are together, her house is friendly and her dad even visits their fifth-grade class. The two best friends were perfectly content with their life and no matter what they would not be separated nor turn against each other. “We were the girls with the wrong school supplies, and everything we did after that, even the things done just like everyone else, were the wrong things to do” (Horrock 473). Hanna and the narrator did not care whether they were doing the wrong thing socially, as long as they had each other.
Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be. In the novel The Devil’s Arithmetic, by Jane Yolen, is a story of a girl named Hannah who isn’t accepting her Jewish heritage. One day when Hannah was at a seder dinner she opened the door and then she found herself in the past. Although some believe that Hannah is starting to change and appreciate her Jewish heritage, I know she isn’t. Even though hannah is being called Chaya by Gitl, Shmuel, and others, she really isn’t accepting it.
Hannah was ignorant about the world around her and was only concentrated on learning the piano and dreaming about becoming a concert pianist. “[Hannah] dreamed of [herself] in flowing dresses with [her] long black hair grown out to [her] waist and a string of pearls at [her] throat”(horton.1). This shows that Hannah is living in her own world with her hopes and dreams. Hannah realized that she has a great talent and she can become a famous concert pianist one day. Hannah believed when Tant Rose said “ If [she] made a few sacrifices and worked hard [she] would be famous’’(1).
This makes the themes of belonging and family even more prominent. Foreshadowing is used within these flashbacks, as the events that occur in these begin to mirror those happening to Taylor. Readers discover that Hannah has also struggled with belonging, as in chapter 14 Hannah (Narnie) speaks of how she doesn’t know what to do since Webb’s disappearance. This foreshadows Taylor’s journey, as losing those close to her resulted in her lack of self-belonging.